Abstract: Provided is a highly reliable semiconductor device. The present invention relates to a shift register circuit including a plurality of stages of sequential circuits. An output signal of a sequential circuit is input to a sequential circuit in the subsequent stage. Before a sequential circuit outputs a signal and after the sequential circuit outputs the signal, the potential of a gate of a transistor included in the sequential circuit is changed in accordance with a clock signal so as to avoid voltage stress application between the gate and a source of the transistor for a long time. The shift register circuit can be applied to a scan line driver circuit of a display apparatus, for example.

Abstract: A semiconductor device having a light sensing function and including a high-resolution display portion is provided. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of pixels, and the pixels each include first and second light-receiving devices, first to fifth transistors, a capacitor, and a first wiring. One electrode of the first light-receiving device is electrically connected to the first wiring, and the other electrode is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of the first transistor. One electrode of the second light-receiving device is electrically connected to the first wiring, and the other electrode is electrically connected to one of a source and a drain of the second transistor. The other of the source and the drain of the second transistor is electrically connected to the other of the source and the drain of the first transistor.

Abstract: A robot automation system includes circuitry configured to generate a plurality of task patterns that are candidates of a task flow for performing a job including a plurality of tasks by at least one robot. Each of the plurality of task patterns includes a corresponding relationship between the plurality of tasks and the at least one robot. The circuitry is further configured to calculate an estimated cycle time of the job based on a simulation in which the at least one robot performs the plurality of tasks, for each of the plurality of task patterns. The circuitry is further configured to generate, as an operation program, at least one task flow for performing the job by the at least one robot, in response to comparing a preset reference cycle time for the job with the estimated cycle time for each of the plurality of task patterns.

Abstract: A compound of the formula (I) or a salt thereof (R represents methyl group or fluorine atom) having an mPGES-1 inhibitory activity and useful as an active ingredient of a medicament for prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of such diseases as inflammation, pain, or rheumatism.

Abstract: An optical transmission system includes a transmitting node that transmits wavelength light of an operational path to an optical waveguide, and a receiving node that receives the wavelength light from the optical waveguide. The transmitting node includes a light source that generates spontaneously emitted light and a wavelength selector that generates and outputs dummy wavelength light from the spontaneously emitted light generated by the light source. The receiving node includes an extractor that extracts spectral data of the dummy wavelength light passed in the optical waveguide. The optical transmission system further includes an obtainer that obtains a band state of the operational path from the spectral data of the dummy wavelength light extracted by the extractor.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion device includes: a memory; and a processor configured to: receive transmission signal light in which first wavelength division multiplexing signal light and second wavelength division multiplexing signal light that have different wavelength bands in which a plurality of rays of main signal light is wavelength-multiplexed are combined with supervisory control signal light that relates to supervisory control of the first wavelength division multiplexing signal light and the second wavelength division multiplexing signal light from a transmission line and that demultiplexes the supervisory control signal light from the transmission signal light; detect input power of the supervisory control signal light; demultiplexer each of the first wavelength division multiplexing signal light and the second wavelength division multiplexing signal light from the transmission signal light; convert at least one of the wavelength bands of the first wavelength division multiplexing signal light and the se

Abstract: An optical transmission system includes a transmitting node that transmits wavelength light of an operational path to an optical waveguide, and a receiving node that receives the wavelength light from the optical waveguide. The transmitting node includes a light source that generates spontaneously emitted light and a wavelength selector that generates and outputs dummy wavelength light from the spontaneously emitted light generated by the light source. The receiving node includes an extractor that extracts spectral data of the dummy wavelength light passed in the optical waveguide. The optical transmission system further includes an obtainer that obtains a band state of the operational path from the spectral data of the dummy wavelength light extracted by the extractor.

Abstract: An optical transmission device includes: a selector configured to select a wavelength of a signal to be transmitted to an optical transmission line and output a wavelength-multiplexed signal; an adjustor configured to control a power level of the wavelength-multiplexed signal; and a controller configured to control the adjustor or the selector, wherein the selector selects a wavelength of an optical signal in a second wavelength band different from an existing first wavelength band, and when the second wavelength band is added to or removed from the optical transmission line, the controller controls power of the wavelength-multiplexed signal in the second wavelength band at a slower speed than power control in the first wavelength band.

Abstract: A wavelength conversion device includes: a memory; and a processor configured to: receive transmission signal light in which first wavelength division multiplexing signal light and second wavelength division multiplexing signal light that have different wavelength bands in which a plurality of rays of main signal light is wavelength-multiplexed are combined with supervisory control signal light that relates to supervisory control of the first wavelength division multiplexing signal light and the second wavelength division multiplexing signal light from a transmission line and that demultiplexes the supervisory control signal light from the transmission signal light; detect input power of the supervisory control signal light; demultiplexer each of the first wavelength division multiplexing signal light and the second wavelength division multiplexing signal light from the transmission signal light; convert at least one of the wavelength bands of the first wavelength division multiplexing signal light and the se

Abstract: A tipped saw blade includes a disc-shaped base metal and a plurality of tips. Each tip has an edge selected from a flat edge, a left beveled edge, and a right beveled edge. The tips are positioned circumferentially adjacent each other about a radially outer periphery of the base metal. Each flat edge includes a cutting edge that is oriented parallel to a thickness direction of the base metal. Each left beveled edge and each right beveled edge include a corresponding cutting edge that is inclined with respect to the thickness direction of the base metal. Cutting edge line lengths correspond to the lengths at which the cutting edges come in contact with a workpiece when cutting a workpiece. The cutting edges have the following relationship: (sum of cutting edge line lengths of the plurality of beveled edges)?[((cutting edge line length of one of the flat edges)?(kerf thickness+1.5))×(number of the plurality of flat edges)×1.2].

Abstract: A segmented cutting type tipped saw blade includes a first ridge tip, a second ridge tip, a first end tip, and a second end tip. A first end of the first end tip, a second end of the second end tip, a tip end of the first ridge tip, and a tip end of the second ridge tip project radially outward. A top bevel surface extending from the first end and a top bevel surface extending from the second end, a first bevel surface and a second bevel surface extending from the tip end of the first ridge tip and a first bevel surface and a second bevel surface extending from the tip end of the second ridge tip each have a top bevel angle of greater than or equal to 3° and less than or equal to 10°.

Abstract: According to the present invention, an information processing apparatus for editing workflow information is provided that defines a procedure for combining pieces of part information with each other to create a product, the part information defining parts. The information processing apparatus is configured to change, for each part, settings of the part included in the part information, according to an operation; and adjust settings of another part that is to be combined with the part, according to a change that has been made to the settings of the part.

Abstract: A segmented cutting type tipped saw blade includes a first ridge tip, a second ridge tip, a first end tip, and a second end tip. A first end of the first end tip, a second end of the second end tip, a tip end of the first ridge tip, and a tip end of the second ridge tip project radially outward. A top bevel surface extending from the first end and a top bevel surface extending from the second end, a first bevel surface and a second bevel surface extending from the tip end of the first ridge tip and a first bevel surface and a second bevel surface extending from the tip end of the second ridge tip each have a top bevel angle of greater than or equal to 3° and less than or equal to 10°.

Abstract: According to the present invention, an information processing apparatus for editing workflow information is provided that defines a procedure for combining pieces of part information with each other to create a product, the part information defining parts. The information processing apparatus is configured to change, for each part, settings of the part included in the part information, according to an operation; and adjust settings of another part that is to be combined with the part, according to a change that has been made to the settings of the part.

Abstract: A printing control apparatus performs a layout processing that generates print data on which data of products and data of a work instruction sheet are laid out based on information on first post-processing performed for a plurality of printout sheets that are printed using the generated print data, and instructs a printer to print the generated print data on the plurality of printout sheets. In the layout processing, the data of the products and the data of the work instruction sheet are laid out based on an order that the products and the work instruction sheet are discharged from the first post-processing, so that the work instruction sheet discharged from the first post-processing is output on the products discharged from the first post-processing in a piled state as the results of performing the first post-processing for the plurality of printout sheets on which the generated print data is printed.

Abstract: In the present invention, layout processing is performed for, based on first post-processing, print data relating to printout matter and print data relating to a work instruction sheet to be used in work in a post stage, and a printer is instructed to print the print data of the printout matter and the work instruction sheet for which the layout processing has been performed. At this time, in the layout processing, the print data of the printout matter and the work instruction sheet is laid out so that the printout matter and the work instruction sheet after the first post-processing are output in a piled state as the results of performing the first post-processing for the printout matter and the work instruction sheet printed by the printer.

Abstract: A print control apparatus receives a request for printing that contains a binding direction at the time of case binding using a signature, and determines whether the binding direction contained in the received request is a predetermined binding direction. The print control apparatus performs imposition processing so as to achieve a predetermined folding direction of the signature and issues an instruction to carry out the printing if the received binding direction is determined to be the predetermined binding direction, and performs the imposition processing in such a manner that a folding direction of the signature matches the predetermined folding direction of the signature and also issues an instruction to carry out the printing so as to reverse an order of discharging paper if the received binding direction is determined not to be the predetermined binding direction.

Abstract: An optical transmission device includes: an optical splitter configured to branch signal light input from a first optical network; a variable optical attenuator configured to control an attenuation amount of first branched signal light branched by the optical splitter and output the first branched signal light for a second optical network; and a controller configured to detect a modulation component of a signal superimposed on the signal light from second branched signal light branched by the optical splitter and control, based on the detected modulation component, an attenuation amount of the variable optical attenuator, so that the modulation component is suppressed.

Abstract: A print control apparatus receives a request for printing that contains a binding direction at the time of case binding using a signature, and determines whether the binding direction contained in the received request is a predetermined binding direction. The print control apparatus performs imposition processing so as to achieve a predetermined folding direction of the signature and issues an instruction to carry out the printing if the received binding direction is determined to be the predetermined binding direction, and performs the imposition processing in such a manner that a folding direction of the signature matches the predetermined folding direction of the signature and also issues an instruction to carry out the printing so as to reverse an order of discharging paper if the received binding direction is determined not to be the predetermined binding direction.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus that communicates with a first printing device and a second printing device that manages a number of printed pages in color in different color levels and a number of printed pages in black and white. The information processing apparatus includes a managing unit configured to manage a number of printed pages in black and white and a number of printed pages classified into each level in the plurality of color levels; a first acquiring unit configured to acquire status information and first log information relating to the first job; a second acquiring unit configured to acquire second log information relating to a second job; and an adjusting unit configured to adjust the number of printed pages relating to the first job based on the status information and the first log information.